Boys Will Be Boys: Male Socialization & The Family Planning Clinic

This workshop will be both academic and practical with a focus on behavior change and developing approaches and counseling in difficult situations.

This training is not currently being offered. Please contact CFHC if you are interested in further information.

Reaching and working with boys and young men seem like such good ideas…but when individuals and programs try to reach out to young men, resistance and lack of interest seem to be the primary responses.

Through lecture, discussion, film and group activities, this highly interactive workshop will give participants the opportunity to identify some of the reasons for this resistance.

• Who Should Attend
• Program Topics & Objectives

Who Should Attend

• Outreach Workers
• Community Health Workers
• Nurses (LVNs & RNs)
• Health Educators
• Other interested program staff

Program Topics & Objectives

At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Discuss male socialization and the conflicting
  messages men receive about “masculinity,”
  “involvement,” and “responsibility.”
• Describe adolescent male development and
  relate this to issues in the service delivery
  arena.
• Explain the impact of media images on male
  attitudes, behaviors, body image and
  relationships.
• Explain the most essential information males
  need to know about condom use.
• Develop a plan for helping young men
  communicate and make decisions about a
  variety of difficult sexual/relationship
  problems.
• Identify factors that contribute to and support
  behavior change and relate these to their work
  with males.